C&SI - Easing our way into the New Year - 7 January 2024 (S04E07)

Come & See Inspirations (C&SI)

On this weeks podcast John and Shane continue our Christmas celebrations (on the Irish liturgical calendar today is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord so liturgically Christmastide ends at sunset today!) and also takes a wander (magazine style) through some interesting, quirky and thoughtful pieces we came across online during the Christmastide. The pieces help provoke some thoughts on the challenges people can face in the festive time and into the New Year as well as others encouraging us to ease our way into January rather than trying to hit it full gallop!
Links to the articles in this weeks podcast

• I Know It Is Hard to Live - it is so much easier to pretend you don't exist
• Remember. - Before we venture into a New Year
• The Five Lists
• What Time is the Sunrise? Our health and our creativity need us to come out of our heads and into our bodies.
• January Notebook - The Slow Living Issue
• Sowing Anachronism: How to be Weird in Public, and Private
• Simple Acts of Sanity: A Seed Catalogue - Glimmers of light for a dark solstice

We have our regular liturgical odds and ends including the saints of the coming week as we enter back into Ordinary time but it is only a few weeks to the start of Lent (Ash Wednesday is 14th February and Easter Sunday is 31st March). And of course our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel (Mark 1:7-11) which is Mark's account of the Baptism of the Lord.